Wichita eagle., 1887-06-21
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THE DEATH OF MloHAEL zlxMExLE

Like scared leaves of fire-b blasted tree are
many of them who had given their time: u
and best energies to forwarding and building
our city, falling, falling in the very hour
which promised fruitage, dropping -hy the
way side with no power to stay the descent
and ere the summer of life had grown an
cient, while yet their fellows stand green and
fourishfng. With the frosts OF .Autunn yet
far in the future, one by one Of the familiar
forms and faces are suddenly missed and
their places are left vacant. A. heart broken
wife, weeping children and for brief hour
an open grave and about it a group. Of sym
pathising friends who knew him, best,s and
again the world goes on. 9 !. - :
We must all die, and perhaps it matters
not where, when or how, SO we die. vel. .
As to who dies 'well" God alone is the judge
the Merciful Father who knows all But
| few men in this city were better knowns than
was Michael Zimmerly. Since its earliest
history has he been a factor in its business
and nun icipal affairs. While he always
worked for the city as a whole and wh1fe
it may be that his intense Interest
at times was mlsconstrued there are
scores who admired his faithfuihess.~ AS a
| representative in the council for the First
Ward, for many years, his devotion to the
interests of his immediate constituents. was
| so marked as to become by word. He had
I tprospered beyond any expectation Of hf
searly manhood and at the very hour Of ofs b his
death WIS all taken up with an'lmproxemend
which was to have been an ornament to fhs
city he had SO long admired and faithfully
served and a monument to his inaividna
| faith and enterprise. 1t was but Few weeks
Since that he stopped us on the street corner te
talk over the past and present and ef thf
future, which seemed SO full Of nateria
| prosperity, and we remember with svhai
unelouded confidence and supreme lgraki6ca
ton he spoke of it all. But, alas, this, after
1 noon we must consent to the act which hide
his form and features away foreyerAhide
them away from his wonted place upon Oul
streets, away from his home, his wife ant
! orphaned children. -seS fcz,e ?
Michael ZimmerIy was born liz Berne
1Switzerland, Jan. 18th, 1850. He,was left al
orphan at avery early age. He had an olde
sister, finely cultured lady. who is an arts
now residing in San Francisco, who Faiset
him until lie was old enough to, care for him M
self Their parents came to Memphis; he1
he and his sister were but children. He wa
married December 8. 1879, to Mis-
Nettie Losh, if We remembers right.
and the union, which proved happ,
! one, was blessed in four children. Mr.: ZuD
merly was an Odd Fellow and Meson but !,
/ me mber of 10 church organization, so far a
we know. The funeral services viii TAX
place. this afternoon at 2 o'clock, from FL
residence on South Lawrence Rev. Harps
officiating, to which the friends arc invited
Even such is time, that takes on trust -
Our youth, our joys, our all we have, 3.
| And pays us with but age and dust, -,---.-- !,
Who in the dark and silent grave, - :; :.
When we have wandered all our ways, y -
Shuts up the story of our days!.. a''. ss z: ::
| But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
Our God shall raise him up, we trust !!o---- -